7 November – Communism Victims Commemoration Day

The organizing committee of the party
Belarusian Christian Democracy (BChD) calls for 7 November to be recognized as
the Day of Commemoration of the Communism victims.

VitalRymasheuski told BelaPAN about
that. According to him, “the communist revolution that happened on 7 November
1917 set a begging to annihilation of millions of innocent all around the
world”.

“The Communist regime that occupied Belarus consequently annihilated
the Belarusian nation. The elites were annihilated, common people were
annihilated. Hundreds thousands innocent people were killed in Soviet
concentration camps, shot in forests all over Belarus. More than a million
Belarusians were sent to concentration camps on the North of the USSR. The
Communist government consequently applied the politics of annihilation of
Belarusian culture and Belarusian language”, Rymasheuski stated.

He pointed out that according to the scales of the repression and the
consequences for Belarus,
the Communist regime in USSR
“can be only compared to the Nazi regime”.

In the BChD’s appeal it is stated that “the incumbent authorities are continuing
the policy of the Soviet government”. “The Soviet holidays keep being
celebrated, the personalities of Lenin and Stalin – true hangmen of the
Belarusian nation - are set as role models. The celebration of 7 November by
the Republic of Belarus as a state holiday is a real mockery at the memory of
the millions of victims, the memory of Belarus’ national heroes”, the document
states.

BChD calls for “all the sympathetic people of Belarus, all the democratic
Belarusian organizations to support the initiative to recognize 7 November as a
Commemoration Day of the genocide of the Belarusian nation by the Communist
regime”.

“We call for not joining the official celebration on that day, to commemorate
the victims of Communism, disseminate the information about the crimes of the USSR government in Belarus”, the appeal reads.